regent
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Grew up on the south side of Chicago, Englewood and Canaryville, and by the time I left at 23 I had lost three friends, and I'm white. Maybe it has to do with poor people and poor neighborhoods?
I don't live in the city, so I can't speak to that...but I've lived in some extremely poor rural towns...towns filled to the eaves with guns...and yet no one was EVER shot...much less killed.
Small towns have a different environment. People know one another or know someone that knows. There is a lot of social pressure in small town, and on occassion a lot of help. I should have mentioned that my three friends killed in Chicago were by other whites.